- Title
- Green synthesis of reduced graphene oxide using bagasse and its application in dye removal: a waste-to-resource supply chain
- Creator
- Gan, Li; Li, Beibei; Chen, Yuan; Yu, Bing; Chen, Zuliang
- Relation
- Chemosphere Vol. 219, Issue March 2019, p. 148-154
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.11.181
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Graphene is usually synthesized through deoxygenation of graphene oxide (GO) by hydrazine which functions as a reducing agent, but the production of graphene via this method suffers a high cost and is often regarded to be not environmental-friendly. In this work, we developed a simple and efficient method for the green reduction of GO to reduced graphene oxide (rGO) dispersed on sugarcane bagasse derived from rGO/bagasse material. The rGO/bagasse was characterized by Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. All these characterization techniques clearly revealed that the rGO has been successfully prepared by reduction sugars. In addition, rGO synthesized from bagasse was considered as a promising adsorbent for removing methyl blue. Adsorption kinetics were also applied to stimulate the adsorption process, and the adsorption behavior of this new adsorbent fits well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model (R2 = 0.98). Finally, the cycling experiments for MB adsorption by bagasse synthesized rGO confirmed that the as-prepared rGO was reusable. Taken together, all results in this work provided the new insights into the green reduction of GO by bagasse, and the formation of rGO/bagasse material presented a great potential in the disposal of dye waste water.
- Subject
- bagasse; rGO; adsorption; dye removal; SDG 6; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466707
- Identifier
- uon:47634
- Identifier
- ISSN:0045-6535
- Language
- eng
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